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In another move to prove the Obama Regime is deliberately out to destroy businesses comes from Gibson Guitars. They released a press announcement yesterday, August 25, 2011:

On August 24, 2011, around 8:45 a.m. CDT, agents for the federal government executed four search warrants on Gibson’s facilities in Nashville and Memphis and seized several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. Gibson had to cease its manufacturing operations and send workers home for the day, while armed agents executed the search warrants. Gibson has fully cooperated with the execution of the search warrants.

Gibson Did Not Break Any Laws

The Federal Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. has suggested that the use of wood from India that is not finished by Indian workers is illegal, not because of U.S. law, but because it is the Justice Department’s interpretation of a law in India. (If the same wood from the same tree was finished by Indian workers, the material would be legal.) This action was taken without the support and consent of the government in India.

Apparently, this is not the first time the Obama regime has raided Gibson Guitar factories:

In 2009, more than a dozen agents with automatic weapons invaded the Gibson factory in Nashville. The Government seized guitars and a substantial amount of ebony fingerboard blanks from Madagascar. To date, 1 year and 9 months later, criminal charges have NOT been filed, yet the Government still holds Gibson’s property. Gibson has obtained sworn statements and documents from the Madagascar government and these materials, which have been filed in federal court, show that the wood seized in 2009 was legally exported under Madagascar law and that no law has been violated. Gibson is attempting to have its property returned in a civil proceeding that is pending in federal court.

You might ask yourself, “Why is the government doing this then?” I think Ben Howe at RedState summed it up succinctly:

Even though Gibson takes great care on where it sources its wood products from, the government hasn’t charged the company with any violation of the Lacey Act which prohibits importation of endangered species. Gibson does comply with industry standards such as theForest Stewardship Council which monitors and certifies where the wood harvested from. But because FSC is an independent, non-profit organization, and because the government isn’t involved, the government is looking for its cut of the profits by muscling in on private industry. In effect, the government is holding Gibson Guitars property until the government can find a reason to fine them for legal business activities.

Or perhaps the Obama Regime is taking revenge?

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How long do you think it will be before the Obama regime’s policies force Gibson Guitars to move their operation to China? A True American company is being forced out of business by the Obama regime. What has happened to our country?

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On August 25, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) announced that it would issue a Final Rule, to be effective on November 14, 2011, that would require all employers subject to the Board’s jurisdiction—i.e., the vast majority of employers doing business in the United States—to post a notice in the workplace informing employees of their right, among other things, to “[o]rganize a union,” “take action . . . to improve your working conditions by, among other means, raising work-related complaints directly with your employer or with a government, and seeking help from a union,” and to “strike and picket.”

Obama is illegally ordering “Card Check” legislation into law without it first being passed through the Congress. Another job killing move by the Keynesian socialist that wants to change the United States into a Socialist European utopia. Obama is determined to shutdown American businesses.

Using the National Labor Relations Board (NRLB) as the enforcement arm of the Executive branch of government, Obama is giving the Unions a token to remember him in November 2012.

Card check is popular with the union bosses looking for increased political power and increased dues money because it’s an open process that lets organizers know who’s on board and who’s not. It’s a fertile ground for the intimidation of workers and worse—which is exactly why we have elections in this country by the sacred institution of the secret ballot. And it’s this institution that the Arizona, South Dakota, and other state constitutional amendments recently enacted seek to protect. For the unions and their allies in the Democratic Party, though, these amendments are roadblocks that must be cleared away before their overall plans can come to fruition.

The NLRB has announced lawsuits against the states of Arizona and South Dakota because they passed, by citizen initiative, constitutional amendments that require secret ballot elections to form unions. The Obama Regime is trying to intimidate states, businesses and workers by forcing them to be a part of the Labor Unions. You do not get a choice. The Unions will take your money, your pay, and use it to get Obama reelected. They’ll use it to reelect more socialist democrats.

Where the current administration has failed to persuade Congress to adopt its legislative agenda, time and again, it has waived its regulatory wand and enacted the failed “legislation” as “regulation.”

Since the rejection of the Employee Free Choice Act, the administration, largely through the National Labor Relations Board, has brought the legislation the Congress killed back to life.

Consider these recent regulatory initiatives of the NLRB:

Expanded use of mail and Internet balloting in union elections.

Why? Because these ballots are not cast in secret.

Union officials could monitor the voting, accomplishing the primary objective of EFCA — a vote outside the secret ballot booth and under the watchful eye of the candidate;

This is hardly constitutional. It is Illegal. What the Regime is doing is removing the secret ballot so Union Bosses can see how you vote. If you don’t vote the way the Unions want you to vote, you will be targeted for intimidation, you may lose your job, you may be demoted, you may not get a pay increase, you will be punished if you do not vote the Union Label. Disgusting!!!

It will cost jobs:

The agency’s action is seismic. If successful, it would undermine economic competition among states, which helps drive the American economy. Even worse, it would induce companies to export jobs not to other states that have lower labor costs, but to other countries that do.

This action by the Obama Regime is un-American. It is what dictatorships and communists do around the world. It will force jobs overseas to countries with lower wages. It will force small businesses to close. It will put millions of workers out of jobs. This is a deliberate effort by Obama to destroy the free-market capitalist society and turn us into Venezuela!

Every single day there is some new information on what they are doing. The media is not covering it, in fact they are covering it up. I am hoping that everyone who sees what they are doing, is willing to spend the time to pass the information on. We have a very short about of time to stop what they are doing or we will lose our country. The loss of jobs alone will lower our standard of living. The loss of freedom will ruin our country.

Indeed, there hasn’t been any reports in the media; not ABC, NBC, CBS, not the printed media either. The blogs are reporting it. Fox News reported it. None of the other Lame Stream Media outlets are reporting this atrocity of the abuse of Executive power by the Obama regime.

“Let me say this as plainly as I can. If you buy a car from Chrysler or General Motors, you will be able to get your car serviced and repaired just like always,” Obama said in a speech. “Your warranty will be safe. In fact, it will be safer than it has ever been. Because starting today, the United States will stand behind your warranty.”

That was then, this is now:

“New GM’s warranty obligations for vehicles sold by Old GM are limited to the express terms and conditions in the Old GM written warranties on a going-forward basis,” wrote Benjamin Jeffers, a lawyer for GM. “New GM did not assume responsibility for Old GM’s design choices, conduct, or alleged breaches of liability under the warranty.”

Would you buy a car from this man?

It’s like watching the New Adventures of Old Christine, but you’re stuck in the blooper reel. It seems the full faith and credit the United States of has a small print section in the “New” Gubermint Motors warranty.

Obama began his “Listening Tour” by telling American’s to “listen to him“, because he’s not interested in listening to you. That’s what happened during a Decorah, Iowa Townhall meeting when Tea Party members confronted Obama on Joe “BiteMe” Biden’s comments that Tea Party people are like a bunch of terrorists.

In typical condescending fashion, Obama ended the encounter by saying “It doesn’t sound like you’re interested in listening”, he said. So Obama doesn’t want to listen to you, so shut up!

Now there have also been comments by some elected officials and media types calling Tea Party hostage takers and terrorists. In particular, Senator Harry “this war is lost” Reid said the Tea Party is Over!

“The Tea Party isOvah!” said Reid to declared socialist gumshoe Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC, a make believe news organization. Notice that self proclaimed socialist O’Donnell asks that there are three parties in America, Democrat Socialists, Republican and Tea Party. First, there is no “Official” political party called the “Tea Party“, there never has there been and, nor will there ever be a Tea Party. Second, the Tea Party is “We the People“. Third, the Tea Party is a grassroots astroturfing rightwing extremist God fearing collection of people concerned about our government addiction to spending. </snark> And We want an intervention!

Washington can learn from an addict.

Giving another $2.4 Billion of tax payers monies to spend to Obama and Congress, is like giving alcohol to a drunk. They are gonna drink it. Either a hangover of drowning debt will stop them, or the death of the Republic will result. This country is on its way to economic liver failure.

Saying that the Tea Party is short lived, extreme, and that people will move to a more moderate position eventually, is wishful thinking. Basically, what Reid is saying that by moving to more moderate position is actually agreeing with his position of more out of control spending? In your dreams Harry.

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Not to be undone, academic political experts (they’re the ones that teach, but have no practical experience), have weighed in saying Tea Party Heyday is coming to an end. How, by polling people!

“If you were paying attention to the coverage, the characterization of people resistant to raising the debt ceiling was they were Tea Party supporters or members of the Tea Party caucus,” said Charles Franklin, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin and a polling specialist. “That characterization is an element in the current apparent decline in Tea party popularity.”

“It definitely made the Tea Party a more visible figure,” he said. “The people who pay attention the least are the independent swing voters. This is the first time they got an idea of what the Tea Party is trying to do.”

Dick Armey, the chairman of FreedomWorks, a group that works closely with the Tea Party, argues that Tea Party lawmakers and activists have been unfairly blamed. He said in a recent CNN interview that Standard & Poor’s validated their concerns over the national debt when it downgraded the nation’s credit rating. He said Tea Party activists and voters simply want Congress to move aggressively to avert the economic fallout that will come if the current rate of federal spending continues.

If you were paying attention, that is. That’s the important part, were the independents paying attention. I think they were and they still are paying attention, and I disagree that independents are moving away from the Tea Party. Where are they going to go? Over to President Downgrade and more of his failed policies? I suppose if you sit in your ivory towers of academia, make a few phone calls, ask some questions, and formulate an opinion based off of loosely cohesive inquiries, and then everyone would fall out of favor with whatever party they prefer.

Maybe this is just history repeating itself? Could it be? Examine this 1934 opinion cartoon:

Substitute Capitalism for Tea Party

Substitute Capitalism for Tea Party, and link in Obama, and you’ve got Uncle FDR’s solution to prosperity. Spend, Spend, Spend! By the way, if you think this cartoon from Chicago Tribune in 1934 is a hoax, the copywrite date is in the lower right corner, and I’ve linked it to Snopes. Click on the pic to authenticate.

It is eerily parallel to today’s economy and the position the Tea Party has taken is to prevent the country from defaulting on the economy. We need to cut spending, but where to cut? The Tea Party would like your feedback. Click here and answer a few tough questions.

Can you count on congress, and the Gang of 12 committee, to make the tough decisions on spending cuts? Well, let’s see what gang member Rep. James Clyburn (Dumbocrat – S.C.) thinks:

As part of the package to raise the debt ceiling, for instance, Congress locked in more than $900 billion in domestic spending cuts up front, and created the supercommittee to identify at least $1.5 trillion in additional deficit reduction. There were no stimulus provisions or revenue hikes.

Clyburn said he’ll be pushing for revenue raisers – not just cuts – in the next round in order to “secure our nation’s financial future in a fair and balanced way that requires shared sacrifice and creates opportunity for all Americans.”

Clyburn calls this “tithing“, meaning raising your taxes. So here’s a great example of not cutting spending, but adding more spending. As I have stated before in previous posts, the Socialist democrats are not serious about cutting spending. We have yet to hear from John “who served in Vietnam” Kerry on his brain-farts on spending cuts increases. Clyburn politicizes the faux budget committee into a wealth redistribution program. It just proves the socialist democrats are not serious about spending cuts, but they are serious about destroying this nation’s economy.

Hilo Tea Party

Reports about the Tea Party’s demise are greatly exaggerated. However, reports on America’s demise are quickly becoming a reality. Since China is our largest creditor they have some major political influence on this country’s policies, and if China doesn’t like something, they can tell Washington what to do, and they have. Has our debt weakened our sovereignty?

Bowing to Chinese pressure, the U.S. will deny Taiwan’s request for 66 new F-16C/D fighter aircraft, a Taiwan Ministry of National Defense (MND) official said.

So how many more deals have been thwarted by our creditors? This is a direct result of why being in debt with this nation’s enemies is going to destroy our Republic. This is what the Tea Party is trying to prevent. And for that, the socialists that want to destroy this Republic by calling us terrorists.

So who are the real terrorists? The EPA (Employment Prevention Agency) has prevented the expansion of industries to grow citing environmental concerns. The Interior department refuses to issue permits for energy development. The Justice Department denies due process to victims of crime and equal protection under the law. A president that openly promotes a socialist agenda.

The Tea Party wants a return to Constitutional values. This is why we have a Declaration of Independence and not Dependence. Remember, Obama could not recite the Declaration of Independence because he doesn’t believe where our Rights come from. God!

He can’t bring himself to say the Creator

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, which among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. These rights are given to us by God. Not by man. These rights cannot be taken away. Man made rights can be taken away, but not God’s. This is who we are, this is the Tea Party.

It began quietly, not everyone saw it coming. The periphery of liberty was fading. Our basic human rights as defined in the Constitution were being taken away and no one saw it coming. Some did, some raised the alarms, but the vast majority of us didn’t. It came when we were distracted by other issues of the day. What the buzz was all about. While preoccupied with the minutia of a loud mouth congressman indiscretion with sexting pictures of himself, Obama issued executive order 13575.

What is executive order 13575? Watch this video to learn how this effects you.

On June 9, 2011, President Obama issued a sweeping executive order for a White House Rural Council that purports to exert broad municpal powers over the food, fiber, and energy production of Rural American. Where’s the Line, America to how much power the president can amass by executive order?

Look at all the agencies involved in this executive order and ask yourself, why do you need all this bureaucracy? (a) The Secretary of Agriculture shall serve as the Chair of the Council, which shall also include the heads of the following executive branch departments, agencies, and offices:

(1)

the Department of the Treasury;

(2)

the Department of Defense;

(3)

the Department of Justice;

(4)

the Department of the Interior;

(5)

the Department of Commerce;

(6)

the Department of Labor;

(7)

the Department of Health and Human Services;

(8)

the Department of Housing and Urban Development;

(9)

the Department of Transportation;

(10)

the Department of Energy;

(11)

the Department of Education;

(12)

the Department of Veterans Affairs;

(13)

the Department of Homeland Security;

(14)

the Environmental Protection Agency;

(15)

the Federal Communications Commission;

(16)

the Office of Management and Budget;

(17)

the Office of Science and Technology Policy;

(18)

the Office of National Drug Control Policy;

(19)

the Council of Economic Advisers;

(20)

the Domestic Policy Council;

(21)

the National Economic Council;

(22)

the Small Business Administration;

(23)

the Council on Environmental Quality;

(24)

the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs;

(25)

the White House Office of Cabinet Affairs; and such other executive branch departments, agencies, and offices as the President or the Secretary of Agriculture may, from time to time, designate.

(b)

A member of the Council may designate, to perform the Council functions of the member, a senior-level official who is part of the member’s department, agency, or office, and who is a full-time officer or employee of the Federal Government.

(c)

The Department of Agriculture shall provide funding and administrative support for the Council to the extent permitted by law and within existing appropriations.

(d)

The Council shall coordinate its policy development through the Domestic Policy Council and the National Economic Council.

What’s eerie about this executive order is that it similar to the United Nations Agenda 21. It is preceded by Clinton’s 1993 creation: President’s Council on Sustainable Development. Sustainable development as defined is the cornerstone of UN Agenda 21 which mandates for theft of property by the government from the individual property owner. Basically, if you, the land owner, are not using your property to the governments liking, then the government has the power to seize and confiscate private property and give it away to someone else. That’s why they need all those agencies in this executive order. For example, if one agency cannot remove you from your private property for breaking some bogus rule violation, there are dozens of other agencies to attack you. So everything from national security to global warming could be used against you to unlawfully confiscate your property.

So what is UN Agenda 21 and how is this related to EO13575? Watch this video.

It sounds like something out of Nazi Germany. Notice the flowery names; Sustainable, Renewable, Global Development, with the implementation of this policy, is essentially surrendering our liberties to a collective government. It’s communism, plain and simple. It takes the liberties of the individual and gives that to the state. With a stroke of a pen, Obama has brought us closer to this evil agenda.

Steps to implement this social engineering into a socialist Marxist state are already happening. Notice that these are not Laws, but regulations by government agencies. The first part in this executive order is to restrict farmers by restricting what crops they can grow, and what fertilizers and pesticides they can use. California has already started this by preventing water to flow into the central valley. By reasoning that a small fish is more important that growing food for human consumption and growing the economy, the government with its agencies have put people out of business.

This is not new news though; it has been going on for quite awhile. Stealthily chipping at the foundations of the Constitution has been the agenda by the socialist democrats for years. The idea that a centralized government control has always been the end goal for the socialists. They manufactured the housing crisis by forcing the banks to give home loans to people that couldn’t afford it. So now we have all these homes either in foreclosure, or at risk of foreclosure, and since one of the goals of Agenda 21 is to eliminate private property, what better way for the government to aid homeowners but to become their landlords?

The Obama administration may turn thousands of government-owned foreclosures into rental properties to help boost falling home prices.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency said Wednesday it is seeking input from investors on how to rent homes owned by government-controlled mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the Federal Housing Administration.

At the end of last month, the government owned roughly 248,000 foreclosed homes, officials said. About 70,000 of those are listed for sale. But officials expect the number of foreclosures to soar in the coming months.

Many foreclosures have been stalled so attorneys general and federal regulators can investigate whether lenders cut corners and improperly handled thousands of cases. Once a settlement is finalized, foreclosures are expected to pick up again and further depress home prices.

Converting the homes into rentals may reduce “credit losses and help stabilize neighborhoods and home values,” said Edward DeMarco, acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie and Freddie.

So, if your landlord doesn’t like your politics, they can find a way to evict you, but that’s the whole point, isn’t it?

“When the government fears the people,
there is liberty.

When the people fear the government,
there is tyranny.”

Thomas Jefferson

And tyranny is rampant in our government. From the Socialist agenda of the Obama Regime; to the corruption of democrats, and the complicity of journalists, that deliberately distorts and hides the truth.

When politicians refuse to answer questions about their actions, then it’s time ask, what are they hiding? That’s what happened when Dick Durbin (Dumbass – IL) was asked about his responsibility for the Standard and Poor’s downgrade of the U.S. economy.

You either may or may not know of Dick Durbin’s pertinacious attitude to lavishly point his finger of blame at everyone, make fictitious accusations, and wraps himself in a faux layer of virtuous innocence. However, when confronted with the record of his actions, he feigns guiltless responsibility. Here’s Dick Durbin surrounded by his media minions that do the dirty work of hiding his true record of accomplishments. He won’t answer the question, because he knows he’s guilty. Guilty of misusing his position in congress and adding to the misery index of Obama’s regime.

Durbin is not the only one with a crooked finger of blame, there’s also Nazi Piglosi. The chief architect’s to Obama’s plan to destroy the health care system in America, to bankrupt the nation, and to transform our country into a version of European socialist utopia. Here, Piglosi uses the ire of racism to blame the GOP for the budget debacle. Ironic, she voted against Obama’s budget.

And most, if not all, the democrats in congress and in government are either communists or socialists. Their answer to our nation’s problems is to spend more of your money. They want to increase taxes, not on just the corporations, but on everyone. Their philosophy has been to spend our way into prosperity. They justify that by saying that lowering taxes only makes the rich richer.

Well, yes it does. It also allows the rich invest, and that investment creates jobs, and more jobs create tax revenue. That has been proven over and over again. When more people are working, the more tax revenue flows into the treasury. Socialist democrats called that voodoo economics.

So let’s look at this budget that was passed and got us a downgrade by S&P. First, it didn’t stop spending; it increased spending by raising the debt ceiling $2.4 Trillion. Second, the spending cuts are not immediate, they occur over 10 years. That’s not a spending cut when it’s pushed down the road. With this irresponsible budget, it’s no wonder why S&P downgraded us. You cannot increase your spending and say you’ll cut spending later. That just doesn’t make sense.

During the GOP debate, the question asked was, “would you agree to raise taxes with a spending cut ratio of 10:1?” Meaning, for every ten spending cuts, allow one tax increase. Every republican refused to agree to that idea. An idea proposed by the media, the Fox media no less. I found that to be a gotcha question because if anyone had agreed to that, their campaign would have been over.

Taxes are already destructively too high, so any tax hike of any kind will kill more jobs.
Tax hikes would have been immediate. The promised spending cuts won’t ever actually take place.

“It’s outrageous that Senate Democrats have so little respect for the American taxpayer that in the same month they buried our credit rating, they’re heading to Hawaii to celebrate,”

Sleight of hand government. The government doesn’t fear the people. This must change. These people cannot be shamed into doing the right thing for the country. They must be removed from office. The fate of our nation’s health and future depends on changing the face of the presidency and the congress. I fear we will not last as a nation unless this is done in 2012.

What’s for Dinner?

Shrimp Fri Diablo with Micro-Green Salad and Seared Diver Scallop

Like this:

The committee is setup for failure. Admit it, you don’t have any confidence in this dog and pony show either. The Super Committee, as it’s called, is suppose to be a committee of bi-partisan members to find at least $1.2 trillion more in spending cuts, with $1.5 trillion a more desired outcome. This committee’s socialist democrat members are not serious about cutting spending.

They’re just not serious are they? Hasn’t this been done before? Bowles-Simpson committee made recommendations, they were dismissed. Republican’s came up with two budgets, both were tabled by Harry Reid. Obama’s budget was unanimously voted down, 97-0. No hope, no change. Both parties passed a weak budget and we got a credit downgrade because of it. What Leadership?

The Socialist Democrats chose:

From the Senate Harry Reid chose:

Patty Murray of Washington, Max Baucus of Montana and John Kerry of Massachusetts

From the House Nazi Pelosi chose:

Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, Xavier Becerra of California and Chris Van Hollen of Maryland

The Conservative right chose:

From the Senate Mitch McConnell chose:

Jeb Hensarling of Texas, Dave Camp of Michigan and Jon Kyl of Arizona

From the House John Boehner chose:

Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Rob Portman of Ohio and Fred Upton of Michigan

Solid Conservative performers with the right background and temperament to achieve fair and balanced spending cuts. However…..

The socialists democrats are not serious about reducing the debt and spending. They are not serious. Just look at who they put on their Marxist team: John “who served in Vietnam” Kerry, Patty Murray, Chris Van Hollen and Jim Clyburn? These are the most partisan members of congress. Then there is Max Baucus who seemed to have a drinking problem during the Obamacare fiasco. Xavier Becerra is only interested in legalizing illegal immigrants. They are all totally unqualified to make the hard choices. This is a total joke. A waste of taxpayers monies and time.